Mount Giona

From the paved road above Kaloskopi (Koukouvista), on the eastern side of Giona about 35 km from Amfissa, follow the signposted dirt road towards the mountain. After about 4 km take the middle, descending road at a junction; 2 km later is a water trough, and then the Krya Vrysi spring (Fasolakia, 1,356 m), where cars can reach in summer and which is the last reliable water before Vathia Lakka. Waymarks lead left onto a path that crosses a road, climbs to the Kedros ridge and rejoins the dirt road; descend right to a junction and take the left road, which ends after a few hundred metres at the start of the footpath (1,544 m). The walk on roads to here takes about 3–3.5 hours from the village. The path, steep for the first half hour, zigzags up until Pyramida comes into view, traverses above the stream from Vathia Lakka to meadows with a spring and continues beneath the cliffs of Plativouna into Vathia Lakka (about 1,940 m), a natural amphitheatre at the foot of Pyramida's east face, with a spring (unreliable in summer) and good camping, about 4.5 hours from Kaloskopi. Turn left (south) up a bare slope to the wide saddle between Pyramida and Plativouna (about 2,150–2,200 m), then climb the slope on the right, steep but without difficulty, on dense red-square waymarks to the summit, about 1 hour from the saddle and 1.5–1.75 hours from Vathia Lakka. Descend the same way, or drop south-west from the saddle to the Hiking Club of Athens refuge at Lakka Karvouni (1,850 m) and continue down the Reka gorge to Viniani (6.5–7 hours, demanding). The view takes in Parnassos, Oiti, Vardousia, Velouchi and Lake Mornos. In winter Pyramida is a popular snow ascent, but it is a serious mountain then.